A/N: ARGH THERE ARE SO MANY OF THESE NOW. DO YOU PEOPLE HONESTLY HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO I MEAN COME ON. (Don't stop, though. Keep sending me stuff. I love it.)

"Daytime Patrol"

Guest Submission from grazehunter

It was a wonderful morning in Ponyville. Rainbow Dash was walking with Pinkie Pie to the prank store when she decided to ask Pinkie what had been on her mind for the last week.

“Ummm, Pinkie Pie?”

“Yeah, Dashie?”

“You remember that…nighttime patrol we did?”

Pinkie hesitated, her prance coming to a halt. It hadn’t occurred to Rainbow Dash that she was still guilty about what happened the last time.

“Listen Pinkie…I understand if you still feel guilty…”

“I know Rainbow…I guess I was just ready to give up the whole super hero business.”

“Yeah but what about all the ponies that look up to you?”

“It doesn’t matter if the ponies I love get hurt in the process.”

“Well who says that they have to know who Mare Do Well is?”

“But they know who you are, Dashie. I couldn’t risk you getting hurt again.”

“No, but come to my house later and I will show you something.”

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Rainbow’s house floated like a mansion lowered down from the dreams of a filly. It was almost enchanting.

Pinkie waited down below, her mane down and her eyes filled with anxiety and concern. What did Rainbow Dash mean? Was she really thinking about this?

Just then the cyan mare flew down and offered Pinkie her hoof.

As they glided above to the house, Pinkie's mane fluffed back into shape.

Before they even stepped in to see the surprise that Rainbow had in store, Pinkie already had an idea about what exactly her friend had done.

And it made her giggle with excitement.

Mare Do Well the lover may be gone. But Mare Do Well the superhero would live on.

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In a deserted lot, a gang of rough looking stallions gathered. Among them, the white unicorn that had injured Rainbow Dash shuffled his way among the dense crowd.

A brown earth pony in a black jacket made his way to the top of the stand where he announced to the crowd.

“Alright, boys, after what happened in the last heist…”

All eyes darted on the white unicorn, whose nickname was Lead Rose.

“Hey it wasn’t my fault that she was there. And then that rainbow-maned pegasus. Wasn’t she that one pegasus from the paper? The Wonderbolts fan?”

“Doesn’t matter cause you messed up Lead,” the leader whose name was Boar Bane said under gritted teeth," and my patience is only so thin.”

Lead was silent.

“Now,” Bane continued, "Today is a noon heist. And because our colts have been getting a sweet tooth, guess where were going?”

“Uhhhhh…to Daisy Queen?” said a green colt.

“No, you idiot! Drumroll please…”

The group began to pound their hooves, kicking up dust.

“Sugarcube Corner!”

There was a loud roar of approval as the crowd ran to their carts.

As he walked to his cart, Lead Rose began to think about the plan.

Two carts would enter the bakery and sack the place. Then they would meet the remaining three carts and spread the goods out so that the guards wouldn’t get suspicious.

Dear Celestia I hope this works.

The whole gang of thugs were being assembled for this task and if they got caught, it would be the end to them all.

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Pinkie felt a tingle in her spine.

“Dashie,” she whispered.” My Pinkie Sense is tingling.”

“What do you think it could be?” the pegasus questioned.

“The kind of thing that Mare Do Well would respond to.”

The pink pony’s mane went down and her face was grim.

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BAM!

The door to Sugarcube Corner was broken in two by a large orange stallion.

The patrons inside screamed as the thugs filled the bakery, preventing any routes of escape.

“Alright ladies and gentlecolts,” Lead Rose announced,” put your heads down and imagine you’re taking a nice nap.”

A filly made a whimper and with one quick motion, the unicorn kicked her in the flank. It took all the filly’s strength to not cry.

Mare Do Well will save us. Oh Celestia please save us!

The Cakes were put into a corner except for Mr. Cake, who was being directed by a blue colt to open the safe and store all the bits in the sack while his partners began stuffing cakes, pastries, and whatever looked sweet into large wheat sacks.

“Boss,” a colt ran up to Lead.

“There’s a cop outside.”

“Oh, you bucking gotta be kidding me…”

-----

Officer Orange was hugging against the wall when he saw a purple flash in the sky and on the roof.

Huh?

But just then a bat found its way to the top of the officer’s head and it was all black.

-----

“Lock that Orange in the pantry!” Lead barked the command to two of his thugs

Just then there was a dull thud above the ceiling.

“What was that?” a colt asked.

The bandits were silent for a moment, until Lead broke the silence.

“Check it out.”

The colt, known as Red Hoof, nodded and ran up the stairs.

Mrs. Cake made a sound that was somewhere between a cry and a gasp.

“Please don’t tell me Pinkie Pie just came back with Rainbow Dash.” She whispered as tears ran down her cheek.

-----

Red Hoof opened the door quietly and rushed in with his baton.

Nothing.

He began to look around, checking to see where the pony may have hidden.

Suddenly there was another thud and Red Hoof swung around to come face to face with no pony other then Mare Do Well.

“Ohhhhhhh Celestia…” Red backed away when he suddenly bumped into another figure.

He turned around, expecting to face a wardrobe, but instead found…

“Wait? Mare Do Well?” the colt said dumfounded.

He swerved his head to see both mares closing in on him…

-----

There was a sound of hoofs clashing upstairs and Lead Rose looked up with concern.

“He’s probably giving them a good beating,” Scour Stone assured.

“I hope so,” Lead murmured.

"I'm going to get the cart ready. I'll drive this time."

With that, Scour Stone trotted outside.

Just then the unconscious figure of Red Hoof toppled down the stairs.

Several of the outlaws gave gasps of surprise.

“It’s nothing,” Lead yelled,” You two, go and take care of it.”

The two colts he had ordered ran up the stairs and once again there was a sound of a struggle.

After a momentary silence, the two bodies of the thugs toppled over Red Hoof like some messed-up dog pile at the end of the stairs.

Then the sound of hoofs made the thieves cringe. The sight afterwards only made them jump back in bewilderment.

There stood Mare Do Well.

Oh, buck me, Lead thought.

“Every colt run for your lives!” a bandit screamed before rushing out the door.

And in an instance there was an influx of stallions trying to get past the front entrance. The few who stayed to fight only met a hoof to the face before they were knocked down.

“Out of my way!” Lead screamed and an orange aura surrounded the thieves and forced them aside.

Pinkie Pie’s blood boiled. She recognized the thug who had injured her friend.

He wasn't going to get away like last time. Not anymore.

And with that she dashed past the crowd, ramming her body into the unicorn, throwing him onto the pavement of the road.

“Lead Rose?” a surprised Scour Stone asked confusingly as he turned to see who had just shoved the unicorn to the ground.

"Who the heck are you?" He asked the masked crime fighter before him.

Lead quickly scrambled to his hooves and dived into the back of the cart.

“Step on it!” screamed Lead Rose.

The cart sped down the street, past surprised ponies and officers.

Not on my watch, Pinkie determined.

As Officer Orange became responsive after his attack, the officer galloped through the hole that was once a door.

He only managed to see the cart racing towards the horizon and a purple blur follow it skillfully over the roofs like some professional acrobat.

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Lead Rose was almost to the backup. If he outnumbered Mare Do Well, then he had a chance.

Just then he heard a thud and saw that, by some amazing amount of speed, Mare Do Well had caught up.

Lead tried to buck her off but she was one step ahead. She dodged his kick and returned with a front hoof to his cheek. She then somersaulted and landed on top of his back with her two front hooves.

Lead howled in pain and tried to get the swift mare off his damaged spine.

Just then there was another thud and Lead felt the cart come to a halt. He managed to kick the masked hero off and ran to the side of the cart to see Scour lying sleepily under the harness. A pegasus was standing over him.

Wait a minute.

Not just any pegasus, but a second Mare Do Well!

“Huh?”

He arched his head to see the first Mare Do Well get up and begin to advance towards his position.

“Wait a minute!” he squealed as he the mares cornered him into an alley.

“How can there be two you?” he chocked at his words.

The first Mare Do Well gave a dark chuckle and said, “You thought there was only one Mare Do Well?”

“You really need to get out more often.” The other Mare Do Well added in a matter-of-factly-voice.

Lead turned his head to see he was in a dead end. There was no escaping this time.

“Hold on! Hold on! We can talk this out like civilized ponies.” Lead’s blood was starting to run cold.

“You stopped being a civilized pony when you attacked that pegasus in your last heist.”

“It was self-defense!” Lead pleaded.

If they got in range, he would be ready.

“No, it was just plain cruel,” the second Mare Do Well hissed.

“Come on now?” Lead tried to let out a chuckle, but his mouth felt as dry as an empty mug of cider.

However, the mares were now in range and using his magic, he decided to attack the first mare.

Pinkie felt a sharp pain in her legs as the unicorn pinned her down like a ragdoll.

She managed to arch her head only to watch in horror as her friend suffered the same effect.

Lead trotted up, laughing.

“You mares never learn do you?” he mocked. "Well, it looks like Professor Lead Rose will have to give you a proper lesson in Outlaw 101.”

A purple aura suddenly surrounded Lead and his eyes froze. His grasp was released and the orange aura dissipated into thin air.

Both mares got up to see a third Mare Do Well standing over them.

Both wanted to know how, but decided to save explanations for later. Right now, they had a thug to lecture on.

Lead was pinned to the ground, and he saw the third Mare Do Well land safely on a ledge and then onto the ground, never releasing her grasp on him as she did so.

“Now you seem to have not yet mastered this spell,” the third Mare Do Well said in a steely voice.

“Bu-bu-Buck yo-you.” The stallion hissed in agony.

“Now let us teach you something in Flank-kicking 101,” The second mare said cynically.

“If you want to avoid injury or getting your flanks handed to you, please avoid the following occupations.” The first mare chided.

“Theft, vandalism, anything really that is against the law.” The third mare lectured.

Lead felt himself levitate into the air and over the buildings.

“Oh and tell your boss,” the first mare added,” that robbing a bakery, especially one as nice as Sugarcube Corner, is really just a stupid idea. Only meanie bullies whose brains are the size of cupcakes ever try that kind of stunt.”

He continued to rise until he was sure a bird could actually collide with his snout.

“Wait! Wait! Please don’t kill me! I promise to be good. I won’t rob another pony as long as I live. I will even stop littering! I promise! Just let me go!”

“Suit yourself.” And with that, Lead was tossed into the sky.

He screamed out loud until he landed in a heap of flour sacks in front of Sugarcube Corner, where officers were leading bandits out into prison wagons.

“Lead Rose, what they hay are you doing?” one of the younger colts asked. "Run for it!”

But Lead didn’t even manage to glare at the colt before he was tackled by a distraught Officer Orange.

In the safety of the alleyway, all three Mare Do Wells took off their costumes, revealing themselves to be Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and…

Both ponies jumped back in surprise.

“Twilight!”

The purple unicorn gave an embarrassed giggle.

“Good teamwork?”

“You have a whole pies worth of stuff to talk about!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“As do you.” Twilight replied.

So Pinkie and Rainbow Dash had to explain to Twilght why they were dressed up and how Rainbow Dash had come up with the ingenious idea to ask Applejack and Fluttershy for their costumes in order to make sure that she would never “suspect” them of being the masked mare who was trailing her.

“So you and Pinkie…have done this before?” Twilight questioned.

“Have you?” Rainbow Dash blurted back.

Twilight gave a sigh.

“You see Rainbow Dash, I had performed a duplication spell on the costume before I gave it to Rarity, just as a back up in case she needed another one. But then one night, that unicorn you saw had came in and robbed the library. He had tied me up and since Spike was in Canterlot, I was the only one that could have stopped him. I told the police to keep the incident confidential in fear that he might come back for me. But then I realized that he would rob me or some other pony again anyway, so I took out the back up and used it to hunt him down and get my books back.”

“How long ago was this?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Just before we took the train to Canterlot for Hearth's Warming Eve. I was worried that you would all get stressed if I told you what happened. I didn’t want anypony else to get hurt.”

Pinkie put a hoof over Twilight and the two mares shared in a warm embrace.

“I know what it feels like when you are worried about somepony,” Pinkie whispered into Twilight’s ears.

After the hug, Twilight asked Rainbow about…well…everything. The bet, the nightly endeavors, the romance, the drama, and everything else in between.

When they were finished, all three costumed heros stood in place, not knowing exactly what to do now.

“That colt is really despicable.” Pinkie said coldly.

“No kidding, Pinkie,” Rainbow said,” I’m just glad that we got to teach him a lesson before we gave him to the cops.”

“So what’s next?” Twilight asked.

"My Pinkie Sense is telling me where we can find more of these nasty thugs."

-----

Boar Bane was getting impatient. The sound of voices from the direction of Sugarcube Corner was making him antsy.

I just need to relax.

That was when he heard a sound behind him.

“I swear Spork, for the last time you cannot be a spy unless you learn how to use a butterfly…” Bane stopped in mid sentence to see three masked Mare Do Wells facing him.

His eyes widened in absolute terror

“Surprised?”

Authors Note: Trying to write fan fiction for well...fan fiction. Do not take this concept too seriously. I just wanted to see if I could actually write something like this. Next Chapter: Alternate Ending: Life & Dreams (Guest submission from Tailslover13) Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 36 Minutes